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Thursday, 3 October 2013

The Post with ALL the Lilac!!

As I mentioned last week I am taking part in a SAL/KAL (spin a long/ knit a long) in the A Yarn Loving Mama group on Ravelry. I thought that this would be excellent motivation to get through the mass of lilac fibre I seem to have gathered including this fluffy rolag mountain I made about 3 months ago!!

The pattern we are knitting calls for a DK weight yarn and since I wanted to use my lovely 24g spindle which comfortably spins a fine yarn I decided to try out a true 3 ply.

Bobbin kindly let me borrow one of his tiny tennis balls so I could experiment with using a plying ball...

.... it was a bit of a palaver! I must be more careful next time about winding all the plies on at the same tension.

So my yarn is now finished and I have a few rows knitted,

and I'm pretty sure I won't work with lilac again for a good long while after finishing this shawl!!

6 comments:

That looks amazing! You have done an incredible job on your lilac. The yarn looks pretty balanced (to my inexperienced eye!). I finally managed to get my first entire skein of yarn done on my supported spindle done for the New To You Spin a Long which is being run by Melia of the YarnRaising Podcast. If you haven't watched her video podcast I highly recommend it as she focuses a lot on spinning and she is a mine of technical information.

I can't tell you how much I'd love to dive (face-first) into the lilac fluff mountain pictured. It's all kinds of gorgeousness. Although I rarely use the colours you work with, they are actually my favourites and I always love your WIPS and FOs for this reason. I can't wait to see this finished.